[WikiEN-l] Multilingual?

Fri Nov 14 18:41:59 UTC 2003

"Charles Matthews" <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> schrieb:
> It is being argued that xiangqi (Chinese chess) is appropriately labelled
> 'chess variant', when it predates chess and can't be a variant of it. So
> it's like saying soccer is a 'gridiron variant'.

Chinese chess is a form of chess, and thus cannot predate it. In my opinion, it is a 'chess variant' - and western chess is a 'chess variant' as well. 'Chess' is, in the English language, simply the word for both western chess and the family of chess games as a whole.

Andre Engels